Friday Links
Friday, March 25, 2022
- Bruce Schneier notes that Linux Improves Its Random Number
Generator, and in the process unifies the interface to it, which is
good because I’ve never been able to keep
/dev/random
and/dev/urandom
straight. - Elizabeth Pennisi brings us the sad news that Jurassic Park is probably fiction.
- Rachel Kroll reminds us that people generally aren’t stupid, but sometimes they have to do less-than-perfect things in order to get anything done at all.
- Matthew Namee traces the leadup to riots in Greece in 1901, caused by the translation of the gospels into modern Greek.